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Is a resource for people with intellectual disability, aimed directly and
personally at them, rather than being written for a group setting and aimed at support
staff. The manual :
- provides practical advice and guidance staff and family members to assist them in
'empowering' people with intellectual disability to become strong self advocates.
- is easy to access for people with different support needs
- is easy to photocopy for lots of multiple uses
- is easy to update with new pages
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Individual Workbook One:
Building Strong Self Advocacy
The Building Strong Self Advocacy Workbook is aimed directly at people with
intellectual disability. It is hoped that people with intellectual disability will make
their own way through Building Strong Self Advocacy, drawing wherever necessary on support
and assistance from staff, family members, friends or fellow self advocates.
The Workbook looks at six important ‘Powers’ that everyone needs to be a
strong self advocate. It asks the reader to check whether they have these powers, and
encourages them to become ‘strong self advocates’.
Individual Workbook Two:
My Life, My Service
The My Life, My Service Workbook aims to:
- Support clients of disability services to learn about
the Victorian Disability Service Standards
- Assist staff to do things in a way that the Standards
say they should.
- Provide information for services and staff on whether
they are doing a good job, so they can change things to make the service better for
clients.
- Provide information to assist Services complete the
client part of the ‘assessment’ for disability services
VALID-8 Your Service:
Audit of Client Empowerment in Disability Services
VALID-8 Your Service aims to give disability service agencies a tool for measuring
their performance in relation to client empowerment. It provides indicators of eight
important client empowerment measures, as recommended by VALID.
VALID-8 Your Service can be used by services as a guide to the things they should be
doing to empower clients to genuinely have a say which is heard.
Services may also choose to engage VALID to give an independent audit of their service
using the VALID-8 assessment. Services that are VALID-8ed will be given their own
Certificate of Client Empowerment to proudly display.
THE ADVOCACY FOR INCLUSION
TRAINING MANUAL
Empowering people who support, assist or represent people with
intellectual disability.
ARE YOU READY FOR THE CHALLENGE?
For the past two decades we have focused on getting people with intellectual disability
out of congregate facilities and into more individualised, community-based services. But
the process of community integration - which is about physically relocating people - is
only the beginning.
The real challenge is still ahead of us - that of ensuring community inclusion. For
many people with intellectual disability that challenge will only be met with the support
of staff, parents and friends who are themselves able to grow from being simply workers,
carers and instructors to become Champions, Defenders and Allies.
Are you ready for the challenge? Are you an effective advocate on behalf of people with
intellectual disability?
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Out of Stock
Becoming a Self Advocate Training Manual
Please note that this manual is out of stock and no
longer available for purchase however a photocopy of the manual can be provided for a
small charge ..contact the VALID office.
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The Becoming A Self Advocate Training Program is a curriculum resource for staff
assisting people with intellectual disability to develop Self Advocacy skills. It is aimed
directly at staff working with people with intellectual disability in an Adult Training
and Support Service environment. Features:
- Twenty easy-to-follow session plans to be covered over a typical ATSS term period.
- Competency checklist throughout, ensuring ongoing evaluation of individual progress
- Fully scripted activities, providing staff with simple language prompts to teach
otherwise complex concepts.
- A developmental approach to the teaching of self advocacy skills, beginning with basic
self-awareness concepts and moving on to the complexities of G.S.P.'s and I.P.P.'s.
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This program is designed to support the development of Client Council / Consumer
Committees within ATSS's, but does not assume that every ATSS client will become involved
in such groups. However, this program does assume that the skills of self advocacy are
important for everyone to develop, and that the journey towards empowerment can even be
fun!
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